1962 Academy Awards® Winners and History Actor: GREGORY PECK for "Lawrence of Arabia" Actress: ANNE BANCROFT in "The Miracle Worker", Bette Davis in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" , Katharine Hepburn in "Long Day's Journey Into Night", Geraldine Page in "Sweet Bird of Youth," Lee Remick in "Days of Wine and Roses" Supporting Actor: ED BEGLEY in "Sweet Bird of Youth", Victor Buono in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" , Telly Savalas in "Birdman of Alcatraz", Omar Sharif in "Lawrence of Arabia" , Terence Stamp in "Billy Budd" Supporting Actress: PATTY DUKE in "The Miracle Worker", Mary Badham in "To Kill a Mockingbird" , Shirley Knight in "Sweet Bird of Youth", Angela Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate" , Thelma Ritter in "Birdman of Alcatraz" Director: DAVID LEAN for "Lawrence of Arabia" , Pietro Germi for "Divorce - Italian Style", Robert Mulligan for "To Kill a Mockingbird" , Arthur Penn for "The Miracle Worker

", Frank Perry for "David and Lisa" At the height of his directorial career, British director David Lean (and producer Sam Spiegel) repeated their collaborative victory of five years earlier (as director and producer of The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) - a seven Oscar winner) in 1962.

Their new, monumental historical film, Lawrence of Arabia , with ten nominations and seven Oscars, was a blockbuster and deserving Best Film winner. The over three-hour long spectacle/epic of desert pageantry about the adventures of British officer and Arabian desert guerrilla leader T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) who led the Arab revolt against the Turks in 1917, was derived from Robert Bolt's screenplay. [This was the first of four British-made films that won the top Best Picture Oscar in the decade of the 1960s. The other three were Tom Jones (1963), A Man For All Seasons (1966), and Oliver! (1968).] The 1962 Best Picture winner's seven awards included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Musical Score. Naturally, one of its Oscars was for the photography of its magnificent locale - the desert. It remains the only Best Picture winner to have credited roles for actors of only one gender. There was not a single female speaking role - except for a camel named Gladys!

It was Spiegel's third Oscar for Best Picture (earlier wins for the producer were for On The Waterfront (1954) and The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) ). From the 1951 Academy Awards through to the present, according to the Academy's rules, the Best Picture nomination went to the individual producer(s) credited on the film, not to the production company or studio that produced the film. Note: Spiegel became (and remains) the only producer to have his name - and his name only - associated with three Best Picture Oscars, due to this Oscar win. The other Best Picture nominees included: Darryl F.

Zanuck's 20th Century Fox epic production based on Cornelius Ryan's book, The Longest Day (with five nominations and two wins), another star-studded, documentary-style action/war film about the preparations and events of the Normandy/D-Day Allied landings on June 6, 1944 (which fully deserved its two awards for Special Effects and Black and White Cinematography) director Morton Da Costa's version of Meredith Wilson's The Music Man (with six nominations and one win - Best Musical Score Adaptation) - a rousing, joyous film set in the turn-of-the-century small town of River City in Iowa director Lewis Milestone's film Mutiny on the Bounty (with seven nominations - no acting nominations among them, and no wins) - featuring Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as cold-hearted Captain Bligh - a second and inferior re-make of the 1935 Best Picture winner Horton Foote's adaptation of Harper Lee's autobiographical tale of a childhood in a southern town in director Robert Mulligan's film, To Kill a Mockingbird (with eight nominations and three wins - Best Actor, Best Screenplay, and Best B/W Art/Set Direction) Three of the five Best

 Picture nominees - Warner Bros.' The Music Man, MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty, and Fox's The Longest Day - were not nominated in the Writing, Directing, or Acting categories.

There were five strong Best Actor nominees, with the winner being a sentimental, long-overdue favorite - Gregory Peck won for his role as a thoughtful, soft-spoken, ethical small-town Alabama lawyer/widower of 1932 named Atticus Finch who defends a wrongly-accused black man of rape in director-nominated Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird . (This was Peck's sole Oscar win in a long career which accumulated five Oscar nominations. With his win, he became the first California-born actor to ever win.) Another Best Actor nominee was the critically-favored Best Picture's main star, Irish-born stage actor Peter O'Toole as British military hero T. E. Lawrence, the mysterious, complex and often remote leader of Arab troops/Bedouins on the Allied side against the Turks, who helped British Gen. Allenby destroy the infamous Ottoman Empire. [It was O'Toole's first major film and first nomination out of a total of eight Oscar nominations. His seven other nominations include Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr.

Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982), and Venus (2006). Coincidentally. O'Toole also has the distinctive record of being nominated twice for the same role as King Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968). O'Toole's long string of losses was also experienced by actor Richard Burton (who was nominated and lost seven times for his roles in My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Robe (1953), Becket (1964), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Equus (1977), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

(1966) ).] Other Best Actor nominees included: first-time nominee Marcello Mastroianni as Ferdinando - a Sicilian count who wishes to murder his unattractive wife so that he can legally re-marry in the comical farce by Pietro Germi, the director-nominated Divorce-Italian Style. [Mastroianni would end up with more Oscar nominations for his foreign language roles - three - than any other actor. His other two nominated films include A Special Day (1977), and Dark Eyes (1987). His nomination in 1962 was seen as an "apology" for being un-nominated the previous year for his most memorable career role as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini in Fellini's Best Director-nominated La Dolce Vita (1961).] Burt Lancaster (with his third of four career nominations) for the role of imprisoned, convicted murderer and bird expert Robert Stroud in director John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (with four nominations and no wins).

[Lancaster's other career nominations were for From Here to Eternity (1953) , his sole career win for Elmer Gantry (1960) two years earlier, and later for Atlantic City (1981).] Jack Lemmon (with his fourth of eight nominations and his third Best Actor nomination), for his first serious, dramatic role, was competing as alcoholic advertising man Joe Clay in director Blake Edwards' Days of Wine and Roses (with five nominations and one win - Best Song) Four of the Best Actress nominees were in non-sober roles as either alcoholics or drug addicts. The winner in the Best Actress category was Anne Bancroft, who re-created her stage role as wild and rebellious seven year-old Helen Keller's half-blind teacher/mentor Annie Sullivan in Arthur Penn's film The Miracle Worker (with five nominations and two wins - Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress).

It was generally acknowledged that the most gripping scene in the film was when Bancroft finally had young Patty Duke as Helen Keller utter the word 'water.' [This would prove to be Bancroft's sole Oscar win out of five nominations for roles in the following films: The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967) , The Turning Point (1977), and Agnes of God (1985).] The other Best Actress nominees included: two-time Oscar winner Bette Davis (with her tenth and final Oscar nomination) for her over-the-top playing of the title role as a grotesque, demented child star grown old in director Robert Aldrich's campy horror film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (with five nominations and one win - Best B/W Costume Design). If Davis had won, she would have been the first three-time Best Actress winner.

(Her Baby Jane co-star Joan Crawford was disappointed that she had not been nominated - but was able to deliver the acceptance speech for an absent Anne Bancroft.) Lee Remick (with her sole career nomination) as Jack Lemmon's co-dependent alcoholic wife Kirsten Arnesen in Days of Wine and Roses one-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (with her ninth of twelve career nominations) in one of her greatest performances as the tormented, morphine-addicted mother Mary Tyrone in the re-working of Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night (the film's sole nomination) Geraldine Page (with her third of eight career nominations) as Alexandra Del Lago - an aging, declining movie star opposite co-star Paul Newman in director Nicolas Roeg's Sweet Bird of Youth (with three nominations and one win - Best Supporting Actor) The Best Supporting Actor award was denied to favored front-runner Egyptian-born Omar Sharif (with his sole career nomination, in a debut appearance in his first English-language film) as Lawrence's handsome Arab friend Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia .

The surprise upset winner was Ed Begley (with his sole nomination) as a corrupt political redneck boss named 'Boss' Finley who avenges the seduction of his innocent daughter (Shirley Knight) by Paul Newman in Sweet Bird of Youth. Other competitors included: Victor Buono (with his sole career nomination in his debut film) as Edwin Flagg, a pianist who accompanies 'Baby Jane' in making a comeback in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Telly Savalas (with his sole Oscar nomination) for the role of Lancaster's fellow Alcatraz convict Feto Gomez in Birdman of Alcatraz British actor Terence Stamp (with his sole Oscar nomination in his film debut) in the title role as the innocent, naive foretopman Billy Budd in the Peter Ustinov-directed Billy Budd (the film's sole nomination), from Herman Melville's seafaring story Anne Bancroft's 16 year-old co-star from The Miracle Worker, Patty Duke (with her sole career nomination in her first film) was nominated and won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her believable rendering of the undisciplined, deaf/dumb/blind child Helen Keller.

Both Bancroft and Duke were repeating their roles from the Broadway production. [Until 10 year-old Tatum O'Neal's win in Paper Moon (1973) as Addie Loggins, Duke was the youngest person to win a competitive Oscar award. Nonetheless, Duke was the first minor (under age 18) to win a competitive Oscar.] She defeated another child actress - and sister of Hollywood director John Badham - nine year-old Mary Badham (with her sole career nomination) as tomboy Scout, Peck's daughter in To Kill a Mockingbird .

[Badham is the youngest nominee for the Best Supporting Actress award in Academy history.] Other Best Supporting Actress nominees included: Shirley Knight (with her second and last unsuccessful nomination) as Ed Begley's daughter Heavenly Finley (Paul Newman's childhood sweetheart) in Sweet Bird of Youth 37 year old Angela Lansbury (with her third and last unsuccessful career nomination) in possibly her greatest career role as the conniving mother of a Korean War hero - and brainwashed assassin - (34 year old Laurence Harvey) in The Manchurian Candidate Thelma Ritter (with the last of her six unsuccessful nominations) as Stroud's (Burt Lancaster) overly-protective mother Elizabeth who never gives up on getting her son out of prison in Birdman of Alcatraz Oscar Snubs and Omissions: Other potential Best Picture nominees which were nudged out, without nominations, included Jules and Jim, one of director John Ford's last Westerns - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (with only one nomination for Edith Head's costume design), and John Frankenheimer's excellent political thriller The Manchurian Candidate (with two unsuccessful nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Film Editing).

And while The Miracle Worker was not nominated as Best Picture it probably should have been to be consistent - it received nominations for director Arthur Penn, and the major female acting awards went to its two stars Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. Stanley Kubrick's audacious film Lolita was entirely neglected by the Academy - its director and actors (James Mason, teenage Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers) were denied well-deserved nominations. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (with five nominations and one win for Best Costume Design) was also denied a Best Picture nomination, as was Sweet Bird of Youth (with three significant acting nominations, and one win in the Best Supporting Actor category). Bette Davis' bitter rival in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , Joan Crawford, was un-nominated. The psychological drama David and Lisa received only two nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay (Eleanor Perry) and Best Director (Frank Perry), and went un-nominated as Best Picture.

Although Through a Glass Darkly (Sw.) brought Ingmar Bergman his second Best Foreign Film Oscar win the previous year, it was missing from the Best Picture nominees this year, and received only one nomination: Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen. One of Sam Peckinpah's greatest films - Ride the High Country - was nomination-less, with veteran actors Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott in farewell roles as two former lawmen. And Sidney Lumet's filmed version of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night was ignored in the Best Director category and nominee Katharine Hepburn's three co-stars - Jason Robards (as alcoholic James Tyrone, Jr.,), Ralph Richardson, and Dean Stockwell, weren't nominated for their compelling acting performances. Robert Preston's remarkable portrayal of charismatic con-man Professor Harold Hill (a recreation of his own Broadway stage performance) who encouraged the townsfolk to invest in a children's marching band in Best Picture-nominated The Music Man was not nominated in the Best Actor category.

[Preston's sole career Oscar nomination would come 20 years later with a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Victor/Victoria (1982).] Co-star Paul Ford was also denied a supporting nomination as Mayor Shinn in The Music Man. Kirk Douglas was also not among the actor nominees for his performance as out-of-sync cowboy Jack Burns in writer Dalton Trumbo's Lonely Are the Brave. Except for its sole unsuccessful nomination for Best Screenplay (Vladimir Nabokov), Lee Marvin (as Liberty Valance - a caricature that preceded his similar Oscar-winning role in Cat Ballou (1965)), Andy Devine (as Link Appleyard), John Wayne (as Tom Doniphon), and James Stewart (as Ransom Stoddard) were ignored in Ford's much-praised The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Other roles without nominations included Robert Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird as the shy recluse Boo Radley, Frank Sinatra as Korean War platoon member and nightmare-suffering Maj.

Bennett Marco in The Manchurian Candidate , Buddy Ebsen as Audrey Hepburn's long-lost husband in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Robert Ryan as the brutal master-at-arms John Claggart in Billy Budd, Ralph Richardson as self-deluded actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Rosalind Russell as Natalie Wood's Mama Rose Hovick in Gypsy. The Miracle Worker - Awards - IMDb Anne Bancroft was not present at the awards ceremony. Joan Crawford accepted the award on her ... More Anne Bancroft was not present at the awards ceremony. Joan Crawford accepted the award on her behalf. Best Actress in a Supporting Role Patty Duke Dead: 'Miracle Worker' Star Was 69 | Hollywood Reporter Photofest Patty Duke (right) as Helen Keller with Anne Bancroft in 'The Miracle Worker' (1962). She received an Academy Award at 16 for playing Helen Keller in 'The Miracle Worker' and starred as two cousins on 'The Patty Duke Show.' Patty Duke, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and starred as two cousins on her own sitcom, died Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

She was 69. "This morning, our beloved wife, mother, matriarch and the exquisite artist, humanitarian and champion of mental health, Anna Patty Duke, closed her eyes, quieted her pain and ascended to a beautiful place," read a family statement. "We celebrate the infinite love and compassion she shared through her work and throughout her life." Her husband, Michael Pearce, told The New York Times that she had died at a hospital near her home in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, from complications of a ruptured intestine that she had suffered Thursday. Duke received her Oscar in 1963 at age 16, then the youngest ever to win in a competitive category. She also collected three Emmy Awards among 10 nominations during her career. Also at 16, Duke became the youngest at that time to have a TV series bearing her name. The Patty Duke Show ran for three seasons on ABC, and she was nominated for an Emmy in 1964. The series was based on a Sidney Sheldon pilot about two identical-looking cousins, one American (Patty Lane) and one English (Cathy Lane). Duke played both parts: the perky one and the studious one.

William Schallert (whose character had an identical twin to make the whole plot work) and Jean Byron were the heads of the Brooklyn Heights household. As the theme song said, the kids were "one pair of matching bookends, different as night and day." Duke's film career was sporadic, peaking with her first major production, The Miracle Worker (1962), and reaching the most attention with Valley of the Dolls (1967), where, countering her squeaky-clean image, she played a pill-popping alcoholic. Her other films included Happy Anniversary (1959), By Design (1981), Willy/Milly (1986), The Hitch-Hikers (1989), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Bigger Than the Sky (2005) and Amazing Love (2012), in which she appeared opposite her son, Sean Astin of Lord of the Rings and Rudy fame. In addition to her husband and Sean, survivors include another son, Mackenzie Astin (Andy on the 1980s sitcom The Facts of Life and a broadcast journalist on Scandal).

Duke was married from 1972 to 1985 to Addams Family star John Astin. He adopted Sean, and he and Patty had Mackenzie together. Anna Marie Duke was born Dec. 14, 1946, and raised in Elmhurst, N.Y. She made her first television appearance in 1955 in an episode of The Brighter Day and played the title role in the movie The Goddess (1958) as a younger version of Kim Stanley's character. Her manager, John Ross, primed her for the Broadway version of The Miracle Worker, which was based on Keller's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life. Duke intensively trained herself to do things without sight and practiced with a blindfold for roughly a year. The regimen paid off: She was tapped by producer Fred Coe to play Keller, starring opposite Anne Bancroft as teacher Annie Sullivan, in the production directed by Arthur Penn that opened in October 1959. Duke won praise from critics for her performance as the deaf-blind-mute girl.

At 13, her name was raised above the title of the play (she is believed to be the first to have her name above the title at such an early age), and she won the Theater World Award for most promising newcomer. She starred in another Broadway play, 1962's Isle of Children, in which she played a dying girl. It was not a success, and Duke segued to the United Artists version of The Miracle Worker, with Penn and Bancroft also making the move to the big screen. Bancroft won the Oscar for best actress. After Duke accepted her Oscar from presenter George Chakiris, her acceptance speech consisted of two words: "Thank you." In 1980, she won an Emmy for playing Sullivan (Melissa Gilbert portrayed Keller) in an NBC adaptation of The Miracle Worker. In 1985, Duke starred as the first female president of the U.S in the short-lived Susan Harris sitcom Hail to the Chief and began a three-year stint as president of the Screen Actors Guild. She also played a drug-addled mother who becomes a minister in the 1995 series Amazing Grace.

Duke penned an emotional 1989 autobiography, Call Me Anna, in which she revealed that she had suffered for years with manic depression, careening between extreme euphoria and debilitating depression and prone to delusions, panic attacks and thoughts of suicide. She adapted it the following year for an ABC telefilm that she also produced and starred in. Patty Duke, Oscar Winner for The Miracle Worker and Sitcom Star, Dies at 69 Patty Duke, Oscar Winner for The Miracle Worker and Sitcom Star, Dies at 69 staff@people.com (Alexis L. Loinaz) Pin it Share Patty Duke, the acclaimed actress who starred as Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker and went on to headline her own sitcom, has died. She was 69. Her son Sean Astin confirmed the news of her death to Good Day L.A., according to The Hollywood Reporter . In a statement to USA Today , her rep said: "Anna 'Patty Duke' Pearce passed away this morning March 29, 2016 at 1:20 a.m. Her cause of death was sepsis from a ruptured intestine.

She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon. She will be missed." Duke won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1963 for playing Keller opposite Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker. In a sprawling career that spanned six decades, the prolific star shuttled between motion pictures, TV and stage. After a slew of appearances on several TV series and TV specials in the 1950s, Duke scored widespread praise for her powerful performance as Keller in The Miracle Worker – a role that the originally played in a Broadway production of the material a few years earlier. She then swiftly shot to fame with Patty Duke Show, in which she played polar-opposite "identical cousins." The show ran for three seasons, from 1963 to 1966. Her journey with The Miracle Worker came full circle in 1979, when she starred in a TV adaptation, in which she played the role of Helen Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan. She also notched guest appearances on The Love Boat, Hawaii Five-O, Amazing Grace and Touched by an Angel. As recently as 2013, she had a cameo on Glee.

Aside from an Oscar, Duke also won three Emmys, as well as two Golden Globes. Despite her Hollywood success, Duke grappled with challenges in her personal life. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982, and she wrote about the disease in her 1992 autobiography Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness. She would later become a vocal advocate for mental health care. Married four times, Duke is survived by her last husband, Michael Pearce, as well as three sons: Kevin, as well as actors Sean Astin and Mackenzie Astin.

View photos Patty Duke, Oscar Winner for The Miracle Worker and Sitcom Star, Dies at 69| Death, The Miracle Worker, Movie News, TV News, Patty Duke More View photos Patty Duke, Oscar Winner for The Miracle Worker and Sitcom Star, Dies at 69| Death, The Miracle Worker, Movie News, TV News, Patty Duke More Child actor and Oscar winner Patty Duke dies at 69 Child actor and Oscar winner Patty Duke dies at 69 Duke won best supporting actress Academy Award for role in 1962’s The Miracle Worker Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 21:48 Updated: Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 21:50 Award-winning actor Patty Duke at an unveiling ceremony for her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in Los Angeles, California, in August 2004. Duke has passed away at the age of 69.

File photograph: Jim Ruymen/Reuters Patty Duke , an Oscar-winning actor renowned in the mid-20th century as a child star of stage, film and television who went on to cultivate a respected screen career in adulthood, died on Tuesday at a hospital near her home in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho . She was 69. Her husband, Michael Pearce , said the cause was complications of a ruptured intestine that Duke suffered on Thursday. Duke came to wide public notice in 1959, when, at age 12, she starred as Helen Keller in the original Broadway production of William Gibson’s drama The Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft played Helen’s teacher, Annie Sullivan . For her work in the 1962 Hollywood film adaptation, in which she and Bancroft reprised their roles, Duke won the Academy Award for best supporting actress. The Patty Duke Show She came to even wider attention the next year, with the debut of The Patty Duke Show , the popular ABC sitcom in which Duke played the dual roles of Patty Lane , an unaffected Brooklyn girl, and her worldly, British-accented “identical cousin”, Cathy Lane .

The show, which also starred William Schallert as Patty’s father, ran for three seasons. In an irony not lost on Duke, the fame she won for playing a typical teenager - who inhabited a world of bubble gum and bobby socks and few real problems - belied the lifelong upheavals that began in her childhood. Among them were an impoverished upbringing, parental alcoholism, her removal from her home by her managers, implication in the TV quiz-show scandals of the late 1950s, four marriages and more than one suicide attempt. In the end, Duke found contentment in an enduring fourth marriage; the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild; public lobbying for causes including mental health, AIDS awareness and nuclear disarmament; and a renewed television career that brought her three Emmys. ADVERTISEMENT Anna Marie Duke was born in Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on December 14th, 1946, and reared in the Elmhurst section of Queens. Father an alcoholic Her father, John Patrick Duke , was a handyman and a cabby; her mother, the former Frances McMahon, was a cashier. Her mother, Duke later said, was chronically depressed; her father was an alcoholic.

When Anna was 6, her father left the family, and she saw him again only occasionally. Anna began acting at 7, after she was taken on by John and Ethel Ross , husband-and-wife managers who represented her older brother Ray . They immediately changed her name to the pert, less ethnic-sounding Patty. “Anna Marie is dead; you’re Patty now,” she was told, as she recalled in a memoir, Call Me Anna (1987, with Kenneth Turan). As Patty Duke, she landed bit parts in films and on television before being cast in The Miracle Worker. To prepare her to audition for the part, the Rosses took to blindfolding her and moving the furniture around. Playing the young Helen Keller - a rigorous role that required her to act, persuasively but without sentimentality, the part of a deaf-blind child subject - she won critical plaudits and enduring fame.

Reviewing the play in The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote: “As Helen, little Miss Duke is altogether superb - a plain, sullen, explosive, miniature monster whose destructive behaviour makes sympathy for her afflictions impossible, but whose independence and vitality are nevertheless admirable.” New York Times Oscar for Best Actress Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker Home > Oscar Awards > Oscar for Best Actress Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker Oscar for Best Actress Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker Oscar for Best Actress Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker Joan Crawford accepted on Bancroft’s behalf and read Bancroft’s prepared speech: “There are three reasons why I won this award—Fred Coe, Arthur Penn, and William Gibson. Thank you.” BEST ACTRESS ANNE BANCROFT, THE MIRACLE WORKER As Anne Sullivan, Bancroft played the teacher/companion of Helen Keller and was lauded by critics. “Ms. Bancroft’s performance does bring to life and reveal a wondrous woman with great humor and passion.. .a display of physically powerful acting,” Bosley Crowther wrote in the New York Times. Anne Bancroft created the role on Broadway and earned a Tony Award.

Following her success in The Miracle Worker, Bancroft appeared in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), 7 Women (1966), and as the iconographic Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967, nom.). Bancroft made several films in the 1970s for her producer/husband Mel Brooks, including Silent Movie (1976), The Elephant Man (1980), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)- Among her other films are The Turning Point (1977) and Agnes of God {1985). Bancroft stepped behind the camera to write and direct Fatso (1980), which received mixed reviews. In 1958, Bancroft made her Broadway debut as lovelorn, Bronx-accented Gittel Mosca opposite Henry Fonda (as the married man Gittel loves) in William Gibson’s two-character play Two for the Seesaw, directed by Arthur Penn. For Gittel, she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.

(Though her role was quite equal to Fonda’s, he, an established film actor, was the star, and so she was eligible in the featured category.) BEST ACTRESS ANNE BANCROFT, THE MIRACLE WORKER “Annie’s a very gutsy girl. I swear I wouldn’t hesitate to put her in at shortstop for the New York Yankees.” She subsequently won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1960, again with playwright Gibson and director Penn, when she played Annie Sullivan, the young woman who teaches the child Helen Keller to communicate in The Miracle Worker. She took the latter role to Hollywood, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress, with Patty Duke repeating her own success as Keller alongside Bancroft in the 1962 film version of the play. She had returned to Broadway to star in Mother Courage and Her Children, so Joan Crawford accepted Bancroft’s Oscar on her behalf, and later presented the award to her in New York. Bancroft is one of the few actors to have won an Academy Award and a Tony Award for the same role.

Bancroft co-starred as a medieval nun obsessed with a priest (Jason Robards) in the 1965 Broadway production of John Whiting’s play The Devils. Produced by Alexander H. Cohen and directed by Michael Cacoyannis, it ran for 63 performances. Bancroft received a second Academy Award nomination in 1965 for her performance in The Pumpkin Eater. Her best-known role during this period was Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), for which she received a third Academy Award nomination. In the film, she played an unhappily married woman who seduces a family friend, the much younger recent college graduate played by Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, Hoffman’s character later dates and falls in love with her daughter. Bancroft was ambivalent about her appearance in The Graduate; she stated in several interviews that the role overshadowed all of her other work. Despite her character becoming an archetype of the “older woman” role, Bancroft was only six years older than Hoffman.

BEST ACTRESS ANNE BANCROFT, THE MIRACLE WORKER A CBS television special, Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man (1970), won Bancroft an Emmy Award for her singing and acting. Bancroft is one of very few entertainers to win an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony award. She followed that success with a second television special, Annie and The Hoods (1974), which was telecast on ABC and featured her husband Mel Brooks as a guest star. She made an uncredited cameo in the film Blazing Saddles (1974), directed by Brooks. She received a fourth Academy Award nomination for her performance in The Turning Point (1977) opposite Shirley MacLaine, and a fifth nomination for her performance in Agnes of God (1985) opposite Jane Fonda. Bancroft made her debut as a screenwriter and director in Fatso (1980), in which she starred with Dom DeLuise.

Bancroft was also the original choice to play Joan Crawford in the film Mommie Dearest (1981), but backed out at the eleventh hour, and was replaced by Faye Dunaway. She was also a front-runner for the role of Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment (1983), but declined so she could act in the remake of To Be or Not to Be (1983), with her husband Mel Brooks. BEST ACTRESS ANNE BANCROFT, THE MIRACLE WORKER In the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s, Bancroft took supporting roles in a number of films in which she co-starred with major film stars—including Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) with Nicolas Cage, Love Potion No. 9 (1992) with Sandra Bullock, Malice (1993) with Nicole Kidman, Point of No Return (1993) with Bridget Fonda, Home for the Holidays (1995) with Robert Downey Jr.

and directed by Jodie Foster, How to Make an American Quilt (1995) with Winona Ryder, G.I. Jane (1997) with Demi Moore, Great Expectations (1998) with Gwyneth Paltrow, Keeping the Faith (2000) with Ben Stiller, and Heartbreakers (2001) with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sigourney Weaver and Gene Hackman. She also lent her voice to the animated film Antz (1998), which also featured performances from Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone, and Woody Allen. Bancroft also starred in several television movies and miniseries, receiving six Emmy Award nominations (winning twice), eight Golden Globe nominations (winning twice), and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Her final appearance was as herself in a 2004 episode of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Her last project was the animated feature Delgo, released posthumously in 2008. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6368 Hollywood Boulevard, for her work in television.

At the time of her star’s installation (1960), she had recently appeared in several TV series. Bancroft is also a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1992. Anne Bancroft Film Anne Bancroft - Photo 6 - Pictures - CBS News Anne Bancroft Next Anne Bancroft, shown in this April 11, 1968, file photo, died of uterine cancer on June 7,2005. She was 73. Bancroft won the 1962 best actress Oscar as the teacher of a young Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker," but achieved greater fame as a seductive mother in 1967's "The Graduate." Credit: AP Anne Bancroft communicates with her hands in American sign language as the character Anne Sullivan of the Broadway play "The Miracle Worker," in New York Oct. 30, 1959. Credit: AP Actress Anne Bancroft sits in a rocking chair as she studies a script in her Greenwich Village apartment in New York June 7, 1963.

Credit: AP Newlyweds Anne Bancroft, left, and Mel Brooks pose in New York City, Aug. 11, 1964. Credit: AP Dustin Hoffman looks at the stocking leg of body double Linda Gray, representing actress Anne Bancroft, his seductress in this scene from the 1967 film "The Graduate." Credit: AP Anne Bancroft, left, and Dustin Hoffman appear in a scene from the 1967 film "The Graduate." Bancroft, who won the 1962 best actress Oscar as the teacher of a young Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker," achieved even greater fame as the seductive Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate." Credit: AP In this publicity still, actors Anne Bancroft, left, and Dustin Hoffman appear in a scene from the 1967 film "The Graduate." Credit: AP Stage and screen actress Anne Bancroft poses in Los Angeles, Calif., in April 1992. Credit: AP Actress Anne Bancroft with Winona Ryder in 1995's "How to Make an American Quilt".

Credit: UNIVERSAL PICTURES Actress Anne Bancroft poses following an interview in New York in this July 28, 1997, photo. Credit: AP Anne Bancroft and her husband, Mel Brooks, arrive for 75th anniversary gala for Time magazine at Radio City Music Hall in New York, March 3, 1998. Credit: AP Actress Anne Bancroft with Sigourney Weaver in 2001's "Heartbreakers." Credit: MGM Pictures Oscar-Winning Actress Patty Duke Dead At Age 69 Oscar-Winning Actress Patty Duke Dead At Age 69 by Deborah Hastings 1:50 PM EDT, March 29, 2016 Playing Oscar-Winning Actress Patty Duke Dead At Age 69 Actress Patty Duke, who won a best supporting actress Oscar at age 16 for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and starred in her own comedy series during the 1960s, has died at age 69, her family announced Tuesday in Los Angeles. The entertainer was a noted film, stage and television performer who also won three Emmys and was an important advocate for mental health awareness.

She was also president of the Screen Actors Guild through a tempestuous time in the 1980s. Read: Comedian Garry Shandling Collapses, Dies At Age 66 in Los Angeles Patty Duke as Helen Keller, with Anne Bancroft, in the 1962 film "The Miracle Worker" (Getty) "This morning, our beloved wife, mother, matriarch and the exquisite humanitarian and champion of mental health, Anna Patty Duke, closed her eyes, quieted her pain ascended to a beautiful place," read a statement from her family. "We celebrate the infinite love and compassion she shared through her work and throughout her life." She died from sepsis resulting from a ruptured intestine, her managers said. Thank you Patty Duke for all that you've given us. You'll be missed. pic.twitter.com/iyF54D9wAT — The Academy (@TheAcademy) March 29, 2016 Patty Duke, 16, with her Oscar at after party in 1963. Celebrity condolences poured in on social media from William Shatner, Patricia Heaton, Marlee Matlin, Margaret Cho and singer Rose McGowan.

Patty Duke has died. Thank you for sharing your talent with us for all these years. #neelyoharaforever pic.twitter.com/sCrArGVbT1 — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) March 29, 2016 Duke was the youngest person at the time to star in her own television series, "The Patty Duke Show," in which she played identical cousins. The program ran from 1963 to 1965 and Duke was nominated for an Emmy for playing dual starring roles. Read: Veteran Actor Abe Vigoda of 'Godfather,' 'Barney Miller,' Dies At 94 Patty Duke played dual roles in "The Patty Duke Show," a comedy series about identical cousins. (Getty) She first played the deaf, blind and mute Keller in 1959 on Broadway when she was just 13. To prepare, she rehearsed with a blindfold for nearly a year. In the film, she and Anne Bancroft, who played her teacher, wore padding under the clothes for a violent scene in which the instructor and Keller physically battle each other at a dining room table. Bancroft took home an Oscar for Best Leading Actress in that film.

She was nine when she got her first acting job as a film extra. In 1957, she appeared on "Kraft Theater" and continued working through the "Golden Age" in television. She publicly admitted to being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982, after years of battling the mental illness. She also acknowledged being miserable as teen-age star and turning to alcohol and prescription drugs. She accused her managers at the time of squandering her earnings and sexually abusing her. Her survivors include sons Sean Astin and Mackenzie Astin. She was married to The Addams Family star John Astin from 1972 to 1985, and had three other husbands. She is also survived by husband Michael Pearce and their son, Kevin Pearce.

Question: Who won Best Actress 'Oscar' for the 1962 film "The Miracle Worker"?
Answer: ANNE BANCROFT